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In the 29 March 2019 issue of the London Financial Times, an article on page 6 caught my eye. “OIL DEPENDENCY. US shale bonanza boosts support for Israel, says official”, ran the headline. “The US shale boom has made it possible for the Trump administration to take stronger positions in …

The UK All Party Parliamentary Group on British Muslims published its report, ‘Report on the inquiry into a working definition of Islamophobia / anti-Muslim hatred’ [1], in which it defined and attempted to explain and justify its definition of Islamophobia. Their definition is: “Islamophobia is rooted in racism and is a …

Do Muslims find even basic expressions of Christian faith to be “provocative,” and therefore worthy of a violent attack by Muslims against Christians? If so, what should the Christian and righteous response be? Muslims in a Ugandan town accused the Christians of mocking Islam by publicly saying Jesus was the …

At the most recent Chinese Party Congress in 2017, religion was once again declared the enemy of Communism. Since then the Chinese Communist Party has ramped up its persecution of both Christians and Muslims. Muslims in north west China are being held in internment camps and are being ‘re-educated’, a …

One Saudi teen wins her freedom 2,500 Pakistani Christians stuck in Thailand still do not have theirs A Saudi woman who fled her family and became stranded at Bangkok’s main airport has flown to Canada after being granted asylum status. Rahaf Mohammed al-Qunun, 18, had been trying to reach Australia via …

The Cambridge-educated English writer and comedian Stephen Fry said this about God, live on television: “Why should I respect a capricious, mean-minded, stupid God who creates a world so full of injustice and pain?” Given that the Bible asserts that all Creation came into being through Christ, then if the …

Who is Jesus, really? Muslims claims that Jesus is only a prophet, not the Son of God. While Jesus did prophesy concerning the end of this age of the world, He claimed to be a lot more. He fulfilled 586 Old Testament prophecies concerning the Messiah. Here are some recorded …

Let me start by making this point – the Church is not a state: it is a teacher of nations and a healer of people in heart, soul, mind and body, or should be. Increasingly, many national governments are trying to snuff out the light of Christ, to close down …

The Bible is not a book of science, but it does claim to be ‘profitable for teaching’. This implies, at the very least, it should not tell us things that are contradicted by reality, provided we possess a right understand both the Bible and reality. The Bible is earnestly challenged …

I want to express my thanks for the Government of Pakistan, and in particular the Prime Minister, Imran Khan, for retaining in custody the Muslim cleric Khadim Hussain Rizvi. Mr Rizvi is the leader of a Pakistani religious political party, Tehreek-i-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP), which he founded. Mr Rizvi has an …